I’m so old that the last time I wrote a research paper, it was on a word processor with no Internet connection or spell check.

Given such constraints, I can’t fathom the concept of waiting until the end to add all the references. If I didn’t do it as I went, I’d have surely died.

I should add that we always read each other’s papers before submission to get a second set of eyes for errors, misspellings, and grammatical quagmires. It was mutually beneficial as the reviewing made us all better. Is that still a common practice?

Use Zotero

…jesus-tapdancing-christ-on-a-cracker, batman! How have I never heard of this?! I just pulled up a few videos on Zotero and this shit looks amazing!

I’m a semester into nursing school, and I know the higher we push that degree up, the more writing - and more strict with citations - the content becomes.

I’m downloading the shit out of this.

Thank you so much for making that your title!!

Yeah as an assistant for a bunch of 1st yearers at university I am sooo going to recommend Zotero

Mendeley also works ok 🫡 but I still add them mostly in the end lol just need yo put " [that really important paper]" and then do it after

This is what LLMs are for. Just double check their work.

Edit: It seems based on the many downotes that I don’t know shit about citations 😅

Guys, I have no idea, never had to write one of these. 😅 It was just a suggestion.

I use GPT4o daily for work stuff. It often does the job pretty reliably. However all the inserting citation into the text would of course not work, seems that zotero that others are mentioning is made for the job and would therefore do it much better.

It seems people let their prejudices get in the way of using LLMs like the limited tools they are. They are not AI, just a pretty decent guessing machine with multiple limitations.